Chrissy Murderbot Women's Studies

Chrissy Murderbot is your friendly neighborhood Diplo: a pan-global dance synthesist who believes that backing an entire four-minute track with a looping police siren is a good idea. Unlike Diplo or even Girl Talk, though, Chrissy isn't interested in connecting his genre obsessions with modern North American hip-hop or R&B, meaning Women's Studies features no hint of pop crossover. It's the difference between believing something like dancehall more

NastyNasty: ‘No Names’

The US dubstep juggernaut rolls on, and apparently it’s invading the UK. NastyNasty is a Bay Area staple who finds himself at the more deranged end of things, consuming dubstep, electro, crunk and hip-hop into sludgy American party music of the highest (or lowest) order. With the previous releases coming on American labels like Frite Nite and Seclusias, a release on a UK label like Planet Mu feels like a landmark for Jasper Reeder.

Boxcutter The Dissolve

If you look up Boxcutter on dubstepforum.net, you’ll see the Irishman’s appearances are akin to Halley’s Comet: infrequent, blazing, not seen by nearly enough people. It isn’t his fault the scene’s become crowded with kids in search of inner ear damage. Perhaps that’s why The Dissolve, Barry Lynn’s fourth full-length, takes bolder and bolder scalpel strokes to create 49 minutes of dubstep, trying so hard to be the opposite of the more

Boxcutter – The Dissolve

When people think of electronic music it is usually Warp Records or Ninja Tune/Big Dada that gets all the plaudits. However it is Planet Mu and its founder Mike Paradinas, that has, for 16 years now, produced consistently good electronica and dance music, yet is often forced to live in the shadow of the former dance giants. It is the slightly more obscure variation of artists that has, perhaps, left Planet Mu in the dark a little, however, Northern more